On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 20:06:22 GMT, (Brad) wrote:

Hi,

My "main" computer is a Gateway "Color Book II" laptop. It is
on every day from 7:30AM until almost 6:00PM. I have been
using it like this for about 7 years. It has a 1.6 GB hdd. Recently,
for the first time, the hdd started to "wine" (high pitched) for about
3 minutes. Then it became quiet and remained quiet. Afterwards,
I still have no trouble reading/writing files to the hdd.

Is this "wine" sound a sign that my hdd may be failing soon?

Thanks in advance, Brad

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be sure there is no active key logger (spyware) in your PC.


Any unusual noise from a hard drive is a bad sign. I have to admit
that I haven't noticed any connection between bearing noise and drive
failure though. I don't think I've ever actually seen a hard drive
fail due to bad bearings. I've seen dozens of bad hard drives and
most had perfectly quiet bearings. I've also seen lots of really
noisy drives that still worked fine.
Andy Cuffe

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